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3.21 of 5 stars
More than sixty percent of today's email traffic is spam, according to email filtering firm Brightmail. This year alone, five trillion spam message... read full description

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Aug 15, 2008
Jamie rated it: 1 of 5 stars
The full title here is Spam Kings: The Real Story behind the High-Rolling Hucksters Pushing Porn, Pills, and %*@)# Enlargements. I co-worker of mine used to get flabbergasted every time the topic of unsolicitted commercial e-mail, or Spam, was brought up. Not because it annoyed him, but because he just didn't understand how these people got away with it and how they did their work. Why didn't police just knock on their doors and arrest them? I was kind of interested in the same question, so I pi More...
Oct 20, 2011
grundoon rated it: 3 of 5 stars
3.5 Certainly dredged up quite a few memories from a previous life. A number of friends and acquaintances make appearances, though not often in particularly flattering light. In fact, virtually nobody completely escapes the tar brush... I suppose this is seen as a more objective form of journalism? An interesting enough read that filled in some gaps for me, but I'm not sure it conveys so much a sense of "The Real Story" than a neutral narrative of selective fact-checked events.
Feb 25, 2010
Barrett rated it: 2 of 5 stars
Very detailed and well researched and all but... well... it almost completely takes place in the US of A, and there is a whole world of spammers out there who don't grace these pages even once.

Kinda like reading IM logs, mixed with court records, for hours.
Mar 02, 2009
Luciano rated it: 4 of 5 stars
This was great for the demonstration of ridiculous ego-charged capitalistic hyperactivity all the characters engage in that makes them almost unbelievable but it happened I guess.
Jul 30, 2011
Jacob rated it: 3 of 5 stars
Fun to read. I wrote a spam filter years ago, and it was very exciting to read this to figure out what the "other guy" was thinking.
Aug 16, 2010
Kit added it
just picked up today. sounds interesting....

update 8/16/10. Never read. Fiance read it, he is a self proclaimed computer nerd. Said the book was good.
May 13, 2008
Chip rated it: 5 of 5 stars
facinating history of spam - a must read for any email server admin.
Jan 07, 2012
Adalbert rated it: 4 of 5 stars
Jan 01, 2012
lahosken rated it: 4 of 5 stars
Dec 28, 2011
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Dec 11, 2011
Junior rated it: 5 of 5 stars
Oct 04, 2011
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Aug 02, 2011
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Dec 16, 2011
Matt rated it: 3 of 5 stars
Jun 15, 2011
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Mar 28, 2011
Mark rated it: 3 of 5 stars
Jan 29, 2011
Ania marked it as to-read
Dec 19, 2010
Steven marked it as to-read
Dec 13, 2010
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Oct 29, 2010
John rated it: 3 of 5 stars
Jul 28, 2010
Chris rated it: 3 of 5 stars
Jun 10, 2010
Rachel marked it as to-read
Jun 07, 2010
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May 02, 2010
Jenny rated it: 4 of 5 stars
Apr 11, 2010
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Mar 22, 2010
Christine marked it as to-read
Mar 03, 2010
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Feb 06, 2010
Branden rated it: 5 of 5 stars
Aug 01, 2011
Craig rated it: 2 of 5 stars
Oct 28, 2009
John rated it: 3 of 5 stars